As if there weren’t enough problems in the world, the Bishop of Córdoba decided that this national monument of worldwide fame should be renamed as ‘cathedral,’ as it is one.
Fishy Pork
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How many legs does a pata-negra pig have? Answer: eight, if you divide the total amount of said hams on sale by the pig population of Andalucía. The Junta de Andalucía did their sums and came up with something fishy about the Iberian cured hams market; and an investigation discovered 17 tonnes of bogus produce.…
You Know It’s Getting Rough (I)
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…When drug addicts have to kick the habit because they’re on the dole and can’t afford it anymore, which is precisely what is happening.
You Know It’s Getting Rough (II)
by Editor •
…When the vans used by the riot police can’t go faster than 90, have unserviceable seatbelts and u/s air-con – is nothing sacred?
You Know It’s Getting Rough (III)
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… When you have 20,000 aspirants line up for a Guardia-Civil selection exam, even though there are only 384 places available. That’s it for the whole of Spain. The majority of those spaces are at the Guardia Civil Academy in Baeza (Jaén).
Waste-of-Space Law
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The coming into being of a new law to protect consumers from spam calls is proving to be as useful as a stretched limousine in Mercadona’s underground car park.
Signs of Besieged Budgets
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Nobody likes to pay fines – especially traffic ones – but nowadays it is not a case of liking it or not, because many people lack the funds to be able to pay them, so they do the only thing they can – appeal against the fine.
Transported in Ecstasy
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The bloody grua (tow truck) gets everywhere and turns up at the most inopportune times – like when you’ve left the car unattended for a moment to rush into the Post Office.
Mickey Finned & Mickey Taken
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You would really think that your luck was in, if two attractive ladies had decided to accompany you back to your flat for a touch of horizontal gymnastics, wouldn’t you?
Frozen Students
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Padul’s budding scholars at the San Sebastian school are tolerating freezing classrooms thanks to a combination of power cuts and a new heating system, the former, all too common, erasing the programming of the latter.